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Ohoho... Norris and McLaren openly talking about 2024 title challenge... this should stirr up Max and Redbull. Game on. If the remaining 2024 races resemble anything close to 80% of the frenzy of 2021, I will be delighted.
Reading the article it is not so clear that he is talking about the championship, he was just saying he could have won last two races but I think the expectations of being able to fight for wins is clear.
About updates from Amus.
PLEASE NOTE: I've removed the Auto Motor Und Sport UPGRADE PREVIEW story, as it is listed as NEW, but weirdly is listed as 2022 Austria, but published in 2023 and listed in 2024
If Lando is so confident, and if these words are true, then the team is preparing a batch of new products and updates in the very near future that will give a boost in performance. In this case, we can confidently say that McLaren is already ready to become the first in pure speed and collect prizes and cups on every racing weekend.
If Lando is so confident, and if these words are true, then the team is preparing a batch of new products and updates in the very near future that will give a boost in performance. In this case, we can confidently say that McLaren is already ready to become the first in pure speed and collect prizes and cups on every racing weekend.
Something that will play into the benefit of Mclaren is that most of the exits onto straights are from corners that will likely please the Mclaren more than Red Bull or Mercedes. The low and medium speeds of all but one entrance of the straight should give us an advantage in the first half of the straight, something you can often see in the telemetry at these kinds of exits.
However, some of the artifacts of the cars performance will also be down to setup. but Austria is not a complicated track and all the teams should be fine. But then again fine differences do count now. The Red Bull does seem very good in high speed corners but there are no high speed corners leading to straights here and they aren't that long either. Not that they gained much from them compared to us in Spain, but every little bit helps.
Is truly MCL38 slow for the starts?
An interesting opinion about this on Ralph's post (with also some opinion about strategy, winning mentality and pit crew):
McLaren played a big part in costing Lando the win in Spain.
1. First, you can clearly see that despite Lando having the best reaction time on the grid, he still takes longer than the others to reach 200kmph. Race starts seem to be the weakness of the MCL38.
2. Second, McLaren's pit wall clearly do not have that "winning mentality", they were uncertain who they are fighting and proposed to cover off Russell who was much slower than Lando.
Lando of course told them to take the fight to Max instead, he clearly has what it takes to fight for wins.
3. Third, McLaren's pit stops are usually one of the fastest on the grid and they hold the world record for fastest pit stop (1.8s) but they still gave Lando a slow stop of 3.6 seconds, a whole 1.8 seconds slower than Red Bull. Given the gap was 2.2 seconds at the end of the race, Lando could've been within DRS in the final lap and tried to overtake Verstappen. This slow pit stop alone seems to have cost him the win. It is very unlike McLaren to make a slow pit stop so could the pressure be getting to them?
4. Last but not least, it took McLaren's pit wall too many laps to decide to box for the final set of softs which would have given Lando more laps to catch up to Max. Add this up with the slow pit stop and Lando would've been all over the back of Verstappen towards the final few laps.
